Thanks Pinterest: Oatmeal Muffins

We had a snow week last week and I started to run low on food & energy, luckily these Oatmeal Muffin Cakes from Pinterest were the perfect solution! I made a combination of mini muffins with raisins and regular muffins with chocolate chips.

Low Carb, Low Sugar yet still Yummy – it really is amazing how good these muffins taste based on the healthy ingredient list

Easy – Only 7 ingredients (banana, baking soda, vanilla, almond milk, oatmeal, eggs, chocolate chips), no fancy mixing required and easy substitutions (note: I used pumpkin rather than banana and 1% milk rather than almond milk and raisins instead of chocolate chips). The recipe and instructions can be found on greenlitebites.com

Pumpkin is a great substitute for banana – No bananas and snowbound, I decided to try with pumpkin puree which worked great!

Try with peanut butter – My little man hasn’t tried peanuts yet, but once he does I think I will try making these with PB for a little variation

Got Oat Bran? (Maybe from a failed attempt of the Dukan Diet?) After the first batch disappeared in less than 24 hours, I ended up making a second batch. I ran out of Oatmeal so instead used Oat Bran. They were heavier and not quite as good but still considerably better than anything else I’ve attempted with Oat Bran! Ideally, I think 2 cups of Oatmeal and 1 cup of Oat Bran would be best if you want to use Oat Bran.

Water for even cooking – because I used half the batter for mini muffin/cakes I didn’t have enough batter for the whole muffin tin. To make sure that the muffins cooked evenly I used my Mum’s trick – fill the empty spots 1/4 full with water

Thnx:

Mum – for your cooking tips & letting me play restaurant a million times when I was a kid. You helped give me a love of cooking & taught me to experiment in the kitchen.